We had one today on another thread that stated that the Union should have exterminated every living Southerner. They hate us with a passion.
What really annoyed him was that you and GOPcapitalist and nolu chan had just beaten him like a drum with argument, documentation, sweet reason, and generally just knowing what the hell you're talking about.
It tends to make for a cranky Yankee.
Yeah, I've seen that one around, too. They just like to push our buttons to make us light up (so to speak). My ideal would be that we'll all pretend they don't exist, and go on discussing our heritage. Hateful people are condemned to misery, just by being themselves.
Re. #22;
"They hate us with a passion."
Oh, don't y'all go jumpin' t' such conclusions quite so fast there, now!
My GGGF survived a nasty wounding at Cold Harbor with the 25th Mass. Vol. Inf., but had a profound respect for his Southern Countrymen at the time which continued for the rest of his life, and "hate" never had a thing to do with it.
One of the Officers of the 3rd Maine (which I reenact with) survived as a POW; after the war the Confederate Officer who had captured him at the Wilderness returned his sword with a letter of reconciliation, and the two remained fast friends for the rest of their lives.
Some of "us" indeed can't seem to get over it; but it seems that most of "Them" did, eventually.
But that is one part of American History that we damnsure do NOT want to have to repeat!
Alas; I tend to agree that the way things are going in this divided Country, it all too well may happen.